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Pakistan - Land of the Pure.

Welcome to Pakistan, Enter the Land of The Pure.

Pakistan extends along either side of the historic Indus River, following its course from the mountain valleys of the Himalayas down to the Arabian Sea. Bordering on India, China, Afghanistan and Iran, Pakistan's 796,095 square kilometers of territory include a wide variety of landscapes, from arid deserts to lush green valleys to stark mountain peaks. Geographically, Pakistan can be divided into three regions: the lowlands along the Indus in the south and east, the arid plateau of Baluchistan in the southwest, and the mountains of the north. The provinces of Punjab and Sindh, in the east and south, are well irrigated. Pakistan's mountainous north contains the second tallest peak on Earth, K2 (28,250 ft., 8611 m), and over 300 glaciers. Three great mountain ranges stretch across this part of the country: the Himalayas, the Karakorams and the Hindu Kush.

Faith, Unity, Discipline.

The Primary Goals of this WoW/MapRaid is to verify and build the road networks across Pakistan as well as improve connectivity of existing road networks.

WoWs2 will be held on the Waze International Slack server. YOU MUST BE ON THIS SLACK before end of registration period or you will not be allowed to participate.

When working in the raid area, please set yourself to visible within WME Chat and make sure your country in WME Chat is set to Pakistan. This will allow other raiders to see where you are working as well as help the senior editors and hosts find you should you have questions. (Image Right)

Goals

Primary Goals

*Naming of road names/city names can be left for local editors if no official information is available

Please do not trust the city names that WME is automatically proposing! Please verify it in other sources (if available) or with local editors. If the name is OK please use it only in area where you can see the buildings. Automatic approving of the city name can cause "smudge city problem" or route to wrong place. If you are not sure, please mark city name field as "None".

What is NOT a Goal of this Project

Cities

Naming

Unique naming is very important to find a specific address and to improve the end user navigation experience. In Pakistan, we have an additional aspect to consider while naming a city or street which is the dual language system. We are using English as well as Urdu as our language of communication; English is mainly for online tasks whereas Urdu (our National language) is used to communicate among people. The layman (as well as others) is using mainly Roman Urdu (Urdu written with Roman/English alphabets) to communicate while using different communication channels e.g., Mobile SMS, Internet etc. Urdu alphabets are also in use, though it seems difficult to type. One thing is sure that we humans are more comfortable in our native/national language than in English (or any other foreign language) and using Urdu in Naming would increase the outreach of Waze; the end user would see the map in his/her native/national language and would have more tendency to accept it and use it frequently. Hence, language factor must be considered to name a city and street etc.

In Pakistan, we don’t have unique names for each and every street; we have sometimes the street numbers and sometimes names and sometimes we don’t have any name at all for the streets. We are using sectors/ blocks/ community or colony names to find those streets, in our real life. Hence, the sectors/blocks/community/colony factor should also be considered while naming.

Pakistan Team has discussed the naming system for cities to be used and have determined to use Urdu names as the main names and English names as the alternative names. The alternate naming will not create city smudges as long as they aren't both listed on primary names anywhere. Street names as of right now should be left in English.

Example:

City Name: ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان

Alternative City Name: Dera Ismail Khan

If you do not know the Urdu translation the primary name should be English. If you cannot verify the Urdu or English name please leave the names marked as "None" and let the local community add the names or reach out to one of the local community members. Do not use online translators as they are not always accurate. Remember you can always navigate across unnamed roads but you cannot navigate without the roads.

Roads

Naming

Road names should follow the same format as cities, Urdu is primary and English is alt.

Pakistan is a LEFT HAND TRAFFIC (LHT) country, meaning you drive on the LEFT side of the road. Please keep this in mind when mapping roads, especially divided roadways.

Motorways

Most motorways are under construction.
Only following motorways are in operational:

M1, M2, M3, M4 M9

The following are under construction and should be locked to L5, Turn Restrictions (for the ON RAMPS) set to RED until a tile build then RTC should be set in place until construction is complete. Please notify your group leader when doing this.

Lahore to Multan

Sialkot Motorway

Multan to Sukhar

Road Types

Pakistan is made up of many different types and styles of roads. Below is a list of a few of them.

* Motorways are TOLLED roads, please make sure to properly place the TOLL FLAG on the entry/exit sections of the Motorways.* Motorcycles are NOT ALLOWED on Motorways, Segment Restrictions should be set in place to prohibit motorcycles on the entry/exit segments.

Lock Levels

Minimum Road Lock Standard

Minimum Road Lock Standard

Segment Type

Level

Freeway (FWY)

4*

Ramp

HCS**

Major Highway (MH)

4

Minor Highway (mH)

3

Primary Street (PS)

2

Street

1

Private Road (PR)

1

Parking Lot Road (PLR)

Parking Lot Road (Petrol Pumps)

1

2

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2

• • • • Ferry • • • •

3

⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ Runway ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃

4

* Motorways under construction locked to L5 and RTC set in place to prevent routing. Notify Group Leaders! Once a Motorway (M#) or National Highway (N#) is completed, please submit it via this form.

** HCS - Locked to the Highest Connecting Segment Lock Level (mH to FWY ramp would be locked to 4)

The lock levels above are minimums, meaning that segments may have higher locks. Note:Do Not Mass Edit just to update locks to these standards, these can be adjusted as you find them while editing other aspects of the segments.

Speed Limits

Please keep in mind when working speed limits to switch your WME Settings to Metric if coming from an Imperial country.

U-Turns

U-Turns are allowed on all intersections unless specifically specified. As a general rule, within the cities, U-Turns can be enabled for TWO WAY road. If you have any questions please reach out to your group before changing. It is important to note however, U-Turns are not a primary goal objective for this trip.

Tools and Scripts for Pakistan

You may not be granted edit points for making a large number of edits in a short time (usually only possible using scripts to edit).

Warning: If you copy information from unauthorized sources, you may be removed from this mapraid.. Also, every segment you edited may be removed from the map. Copying information from copyrighted sources is illegal!

Recommended Scripts

These tools are all scripts that will help you make better use of the information available to you in WME. For this WoW, the following are highly recommended. You are responsible for learning what they do and using them appropriately.